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Robert William Service
· Born in Preston, Lancashire, England on January 16, 1874
· Had nine siblings· Today there is a brass plaque outside a senior citizens home on Kilwinning Main Street where his house once stood. · His best poems are "The Shooting of Dan McGrew", "The Spell of the Yukon", and "The Cremation of Sam McGee". · He went to school at Hillhead High School in Glasgow, Scotland. · Dreamed of becoming a cowboy· He wrote a lot of poems about the war, many appearing in a book, Rhymes of a Red Cross Man, in 1916. · In 1914 on he lived in Europe, then returned to Canada during WWII, to live in Vancouver· He was a newspaper writer for the Toronto Star newspaper in 1912
· served as an ambulance driver during World War I
He wasd raised by his aunts in a small town callled Ayrshire
Hey did you site you source for the picture? I sure hope so lol.
He has some realy good books like "The Sooting of Dan McGrew","The Creamation of Sam McGee
Poem:
The Land God Forgot
The lonely sunsets flare forlorn Down valleys dreadly desolate; The lordly mountains soar in scorn As still as death, as stern as fate.
The lonely sunsets flame and die; The giant valleys gulp the night; The monster mountains scrape the sky, Where eager stars are diamond-bright.
So gaunt against the gibbous moon, Piercing the silence velvet-piled, A lone wolf howls his ancient rune -- The fell arch-spirit of the Wild.
O outcast land! O leper land! Let the lone wolf-cry all express The hate insensate of thy hand, Thy heart's abysmal loneliness. Pictures:
File:Robert W. Service.jpg
Plaque on Kilwinning Main Street where his house once stood
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Robert William Service
· Born in Preston, Lancashire, England on January 16, 1874
· Had nine siblings· Today there is a brass plaque outside a senior citizens home on Kilwinning Main Street where his house once stood. · His best poems are "The Shooting of Dan McGrew", "The Spell of the Yukon", and "The Cremation of Sam McGee". · He went to school at Hillhead High School in Glasgow, Scotland. · Dreamed of becoming a cowboy· He wrote a lot of poems about the war, many appearing in a book, Rhymes of a Red Cross Man, in 1916. · In 1914 on he lived in Europe, then returned to Canada during WWII, to live in Vancouver· He was a newspaper writer for the Toronto Star newspaper in 1912· served as an ambulance driver during World War I
Poem:
The Land God Forgot
The lonely sunsets flare forlorn
Down valleys dreadly desolate;
The lordly mountains soar in scorn
As still as death, as stern as fate.
The lonely sunsets flame and die;
The giant valleys gulp the night;
The monster mountains scrape the sky,
Where eager stars are diamond-bright.
So gaunt against the gibbous moon,
Piercing the silence velvet-piled,
A lone wolf howls his ancient rune --
The fell arch-spirit of the Wild.
O outcast land! O leper land!
Let the lone wolf-cry all express
The hate insensate of thy hand,
Thy heart's abysmal loneliness.
Pictures:
Plaque on Kilwinning Main Street where his house once stood
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Burial Place
HIS IS THE PHOTO STORY WHERE DOING FOR THE POEM
Work Cited
"Harris Williams & Co. Advises Guardian Home Care Holdings, Inc. in Its Sale to Strategic Buyer AccentCare Inc. - Worldnews.com." Web. 21 Jan. 2011. <http://article.wn.com/view/2010/12/23/Harris_Williams_Co_Advises_Guardian_Home_Care_Holdings_Inc_i/>.
"Robert W. Service (1874 - 1958) - Find A Grave Memorial." Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records. Web. 21 Jan. 2011. <http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8373>.
"Service, Robert W." Americana International Edition. Vol. 24. 2004. 584. Print.
Service, Robert W., and Ted Harrison. The Cremation of Sam McGee. New York: Greenwillow, 1987. Print.
"Service, Robert W." World Book. Vol. 17. 2005. 319. Print.
"Robert W. Service (1874 - 1958) - Find A Grave Memorial." Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records. Web. 28 Jan. 2011. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8373..
"Service Robert William." World News. Web. 28 Jan. 2011. <http://wn.com/service_robert_william>.
"Robert W. Service.jpg." Wikipedia. Web. 20 Jan. 2011. http://www.wikipedia.org/.
"File:Robert Service's Memorial, Kilwinning.JPG." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 20 Jan. 2011. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Robert_Service's_memorial,_Kilwinning.JPG>.